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1. 1. Why another costly review?

   Manchester Evening News, Friday 30 January 2009 WHY has the Department of Children Schools and Families undertaken yet another costly consultation/review on home education, now the third since 2005 (the fourth major investigation), all whilst there is no statistical evidence to support the claims made?

2. 2. Honour for headteacher

   Manchester Evening News, Friday 02 January 2009 A HEAD teacher who was such a success he was asked to take on a second school is awarded a CBE for services to education.

3. 3. Maureen, friend of the poor, dies

   Manchester Evening News, Tuesday 20 January 2009 A FIGHTER for the poor who was one Salford's longest serving councillors has died.

4. 4. Sacked head's new legal fight

   Manchester Evening News, Wednesday 21 January 2009 A HEADTEACHER who turned around a failing Manchester school has told a conduct committee of her devastation at being sacked from the job she loved.

5. 5. Superhead's career plea

   Manchester Evening News, Thursday 22 January 2009 SUPERHEAD Dame Jean Else - who earned national recognition when she turned round a failing Manchester school - wept as she battled to save her career during a conduct hearing.

6. 6. 'Superhead' defiant over ban

   Manchester Evening News, Monday 26 January 2009 DEFIANT Dame Jean Else is picking up the pieces of her life following the General Teaching Council's decision to ban her from running schools.

7. 7. Newsagent's sympathy for knifeman

   Manchester Evening News, Thursday 22 January 2009 A NEWSAGENT stabbed in the chest during an attempted robbery has told of his sympathy for the knifeman he believes was trying to murder him.

8. 8. Manchester's truancy shame

   Manchester Evening News, Friday 16 January 2009 MANCHESTER has again been named and shamed as the truancy capital of Britain. And one of the city's schools has come bottom of the class with the worst attendance record in the country.

9. 9. Lewis has music in his veins

   CityLife, Thursday 15 January 2009 THE BBC Philharmonic’s ‘Neglected Genius’ theme returns in its next two concerts at the Bridgewater Hall, with Dallapiccola the object in Gianandrea Noseda’s programme tomorrow and Harrison Birtwistle (presumably – rather than Dukas or Ravel) in Ludovic Morlot’s a week later.

10. 10. City schools shortlisted for art prize

    CityLife, Wednesday 14 January 2009 SOME of the brightest young talents in the art world have been shortlisted for the annual Unilever International Schools Art Project – including pupils from two Manchester schools.

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